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back to the military hospital at Taiz Then there was more
delay to find and send a second soldier with the same camel
and money and sealing wax but with a new rifle He returned
with the books safely after five days No Turk could set a
valué on a book and so the law is that books are taxed by
weight boxes included The customs receipt was attached for
“ 200 kilograms Jewish books at twenty piastres a kilo
valué 4 000 piastres and custom dues amounting to 288
piastres ” In the same document I was spoken of as “the
Jew Ishmail Dhaif Ullah ”—a rather curious combination of
ñames I was called a “Jew ” because of the case of Hebrew
New Testaments Ishmail was the equivalent for Samuel and
Dhaif Ullah my Arabic cognomen